Review: More wide-eyed, experimental goodness from Germany's Denovali Records has landed! Ricardo Donoso has quickly progressed over the years thanks to a hefty number of releases on the excellent Digitalis Recordings, another imprint reserved solely for the most daring of electronic concoctions. His latest LP is a journey through thick waters, where cavernous and apocalyptic drones are swallowed whole by flurries of noise and waves of sonic bleakness. It's the sort of music which could be in just about any film about the fall of man, and Donoso's balance between light and darkness is simply sublime. If you're into any of the PAN's label output, this is for you. Recommended.

Review: For the best part of a decade, Ricardo Donoso has been delivering albums that inhabit the no-man's-land between drone, dark ambient, experimental electronica, and neo-classical soundscapes. On Quintessence, his eighth full-length excursion, Donoso continues to mine these complimentary genres. So while opener "Interphase" glides along on evocative strings and gentle ambient chords, "Metaphase" crackles with crunchy electronic intensity, with Donoso's dark mood coming to the fore. Elsewhere, the majority of the tracks sit somewhere in between these two contrasting approaching, with manipulated orchestration rubbing shoulders with moody, droning electronics and reverb-laden audio textures. It makes for an impressive, if a little chilly, collection of otherworldly cuts.